For incoming Northwestern student Aric DiLalla, one of the 814 students admitted early decision to NU's class of 2016, committing to NU was a daunting choice.
Before deciding to apply early, the Raleigh, N.C., native said he had to weigh the risk of graduating from college with significant debt aga...

Northwestern Profs. Kimberly Gray and Manijeh Razeghi have a lot in common - both women are mothers who began teaching at McCormick in the early nineties - but the two professors have nearly opposite views on what it feels like to be a woman in an underrepresented field. Gray, the only tenured fema...

Earlier this month, a Northwestern student was walking behind Cahn Auditorium when three men approached him from behind and tried to take his cell phone. The attempted robbery came only two days after another Northwestern student was robbed of his cell phone, that time on his porch at an off-campus...

This week marks the two-year anniversary of Northwestern's blackface incident, when two students used blackface in their Halloween costumes, igniting a campus-wide controversy and triggering a discussion about race relations at NU. About a week after the incident, then-Weinberg sophomore Kellyn Lewis wrote i...

Early one Sunday morning in January, Study Abroad Director Bill Anthony came across startling news: Egypt was on the verge of an uprising, and a Northwestern student was in the midst of it in Cairo. The drama in Egypt, which would spill over elsewhere in the Middle East, illustrated new challenges faced by ...

Medill School of Journalism Dean John Lavine announced his retirement, effective at the end of the 2011-12 academic school year, in a statement Wednesday. The architect behind the Medill 2020 plan, Lavine has changed the direction of Medill during his tenure, expanding both the school's name and ac...

A banner headline in the February 7, 1999 edition of the Chicago Tribune succinctly summarized the longtime reputation of Medill Prof. David Protess: "NU professor now a media superstar," the boldface font exclaimed.
Protess and students in his Investigative Journalism class had spent the prior decade...

It's rare for students to happen upon Northwestern's University Career Services building by accident. Located on the far north end of campus at 620 Lincoln St., the nondescript stone structure is divided into two wings with no front door in sight. Its most noticeable sign is the suited undergrad clutching...

Joe McKeown's arms are crossed and he's holding a clipboard in his right hand. His shoes are untied and his whitish-gray hair sticks out from the top of his black jumpsuit. His eyes ping-pong across the court as his defense slides to prevent passes from working their way around the 3-point line. No...

Although she has called SafeRide several times this year, Alice Li has never been able to use the service. Each time, she has been asked to wait for too long. "One of my biggest qualms with SafeRide is that when you call, they say they'll take at least an hour to get to you," the Medill freshman said. "...

After months of discussing how to make the Associated Student Government more representative and effective, some ASG Senate leaders have come up with an unexpected and dramatic solution: slicing the size of the organization by more than half. But that's only one of several options ASG leaders are curre...

In 1896, a group of Northwestern students established a seniors-only honors fraternity to improve relations between student leaders and the University administration. They called it Deru. More than 100 years later, around 2000, Deru went underground and became NU's secret society. But that's no secret...